Pagan table talk with teeth and tenderness.
3 Pagans and a Cat treats pagan life as something researched, practiced, argued over, and lived around the kitchen table. Its episodes move from Wiccan history and lesser-known deities to Yule rituals, Pride, community updates, and occasional grave political reckoning.
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3 Pagans and a Cat is a pagan conversation show with the patience of a study group and the texture of a family visit. It is warm, but not bland. Episodes often open with invocation, credits, and housekeeping before shifting into whatever the day requires: a historical profile, a seasonal practice chat, a deity report, a Pride reflection, or a political emergency that cannot be ignored. Ode, Gwyn, and Jackson appear in different combinations, and the absences become part of the rhythm. When Jackson is interested, he comes. When he is not, the show keeps moving. The result is informal, but it is not careless. Wiccan history is treated as lived religious inheritance and as a record that can be questioned, corrected, and argued through. In the Gardner and Valiente discussion, the show follows letters, initiation, Brickett Wood, sacred texts, and Valiente's objections to Crowley influence with the kind of back-and-forth that makes research feel communal. Deep Dive episodes use a lighter format, picking lesser-known deities and reporting back with curiosity, pronunciation checks, and side comments. Mythology can get spooky fast. It can also get funny. The Yule episode shows the gentler end of the range, where lights, pine, citrus, darkness, vigil, and house preparation become a way to talk about spiritual readiness. Pride episodes are more public and political, attentive to queer celebration, police presence, safety, Discord community, and the mood of defiance around gathering anyway. Spooky Stories episodes widen the circle through submitted tales, queer seasonal celebration, ghost logic, and Samhain affection. The show is also capable of stopping its normal plan for grief and anger, as in the ICE-focused episode that foregrounds gun violence and political fear. That shift does not feel like a break from the show. It feels like part of its ethic. Paganism here is not separated from family, community, bodies, holidays, danger, or the news. The conversations can wander. The wandering is often the point. This is a show for people who like their occult history practical, their ritual talk domestic, and their community politics spoken plainly.
Made for: Best for people drawn to pagan practice, folklore, Wiccan history, seasonal ritual, queer community, and conversational research. It also suits listeners who like informal panels that leave the digressions in.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its inhabited quality: scholarship, ritual practice, family dynamics, listener community, and political conscience occupy the same conversation. It does not flatten paganism into either aesthetics or instruction.
3PAAC discusses issues ranging from the basics of grounding and shielding to sexuality in paganism, attempting to bring both good humour and enthusiastically amateur research to every topic that occurs to them.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Family conversation, careful research and lived observance give 3 Pagans and a Cat a richly specific view of modern pagan life.
Ode, Gwyn and Jackson bring pagan practice into a candid family conversation, moving easily between religious history and observance at home. Yule preparations lead into the meaning of light, darkness and a solstice vigil.
A pagan kitchen table awaits when your curiosity wants Yule lights, queer Pride, and death gods.
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Valiente's objection to Gardner's use of Crowley gives this conversational history its edge.
An article leads Doreen Valiente to write to Gerald Gardner, and Ode and Gwyn follow her from that first contact to a meeting and a place in the Bricket Wood coven.
Ode, Gwyn and Jackson consider Apuk's possibly avoided name and Anat's contrasting attributes.
In Deep Dive 14, Ode, Gwyn and Jackson talk through deities they say are less familiar to them. Apuk comes up first: they discuss the possibility that people avoided saying the death god's name for fear of drawing his attention.
Ode and Gwyn talk through Yule lights, household preparations and a vigil on the longest night.
Jackson is called away for work, so Ode and Gwyn set aside their planned episode and talk about getting ready for Yule. Their tree and window lights lead to pine boughs, orange and clove, then to Ode's vigil on the longest night.
Ghost stories, disputed trousers and a Samhain farewell.
Halloween opens the episode's collection of ghost stories. On a moonlit hike in Oregon, Claire Berhow and her friend Frank see a figure near the trail, though she describes it as black and he sees white.
A family's Kalamazoo Pride recap finds celebration and defiance in the same gathering.
Pride 2025 begins with an invocation, then Ode, Gwyn, and Jackson settle into a family account of Kalamazoo Pride. Gwyn is Ode's mother and Jackson is his brother, and their easy rhythm gives the conversation its shape.
Pet care with a long-term conscience.
Animal talk with bite and heart.
The hosts of Three Pagans and a Cat celebrate Pride 2025 with housekeeping announcements and a brief mention of the No Kings protest.
The hosts discuss their cat Balthazar's dental issues and a GoFundMe to cover expensive vet care.
The hosts of Three Pagans and a Cat return after a month-long break to catch up on personal hardships including dental issues and illness.
The 315th and final episode of 3 Pagans and a Cat, recorded live with chat commenters like Sarenth and Rihanna Gray, looks back at a run that began on December 30, 2017.
No Jackson today.
Fourteen Deep Dives in, and yep, they still like them.
The hosts of Three Pagans and a Cat welcome listeners back, share housekeeping about their community of cats and hunters, and set the tone for a pagan-themed discussion.
The hosts of Three Pagans and a Cat discuss the execution of Alex Preddy by federal agents in Minneapolis and their struggle to maintain a focus on joy as resistance amidst ongoing violence.
Three pagans discuss ancient Greek mystery cults, focusing on the Eleusinian Mysteries and a modern reenactment experience.
Yule starts with a changed plan.
Happy Halloween, but make it haunted.
This is episode 291 of Three Pagans and a Cat, hosted by Ode, their mother Gwyn, and brother Jackson, recorded on Father's Day 2025 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
This episode of Three Pagans and a Cat begins with housekeeping and reading patron names, focusing on accessibility.
Ode and Gwyn discuss the differences between charms, talismans, and amulets in a pagan context, with housekeeping updates about a recent convocation.